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Decline of transhumance will negatively to impact vulture communities

An international team of scientists reveals in a new study that the abandonment of traditional livestock farming activities, such as transhumance, could be detrimental to scavenger communities....

Correcting 6% of electric pylons used by Canarian Egyptian vultures could reduce electrocutions by 50%

A study led by the Doñana Biological Station analyzes the patterns of power lines use by Canarian Egyptian vultures. The researchers have fitted 49 individuals with GPS-devices. This accounted for...

Red mud as makeup in the Egyptian vultures

It is well-established that plumage colours are important for avian visual communication and are used to signal social information. Yet, little is known about the ability of birds to modify the...

Supplementary feeding for avian scavenger

The monitoring of an experimental feeding station established in northern Spain allowed the evaluation of how this type of resource, predictable in space but not in time, was exploited by a guild...